Tuesday 4~Shall We Cook?

 

Shall We Cook?


Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4 kept in memory of her.

Let's talk about food this week shall we?

Most people enjoy eating good food after all.


1.What is/are your favorite foods to eat ?
Lately that is becoming a more difficult thing to answer. My tastes and gastronomic issues keep changing.  The things I used to love to eat I really can't eat anymore...no sweets (or very little), no spicy foods and very little pasta/cheesy/tomato sauce dishes.   I find that I do better if I stick to eating about the same kinds of things every day...breakfast with eggs/buttered toast or grits. No jelly or biscuits, and I need to stay away from pancakes and syrup.  I don't like milk, so I don't eat cereal, but I do like yogurt and granola and fresh fruit, so sometimes I have that for breakfast, but if not, I will have it for a snack later. I also eat peanut butter with apple butter on cinnamon raisin toast (Pepperidge Farm brand) sometimes.

Lunch: I prefer a salad with lettuce and spinach, shredded cheese, maybe a little bit of diced deli ham or if I have cooked chicken I will put that on it. Marie's Cole Slaw dressing on top and also some craisins and a small sprinkle of Fritos. We usually also have some kind of fruit with our lunch, like cantaloupe, cherries, grapes or apples.  For supper: It varies. Hubby likes some kind of meat and potatoes or a one pot meal of some kind.  He also loves hot dogs and beans, so we have that at least once a week.

2.How often do you cook at home and what kind of meals do you make?
I cook at home every day. We MIGHT go out to lunch or breakfast occasionally, but not nearly as often as we used to. Just too expensive!  See above #1 for answers...we eat a lot of stuff made with ground beef, pork loin, or boneless skinless chicken thighs or breasts. Hubby prefers potatoes or rice instead of  pasta. Vegetables vary according to whatever is fresh ...right now we eat a lot of summer or zucchini squash or broccoli.  Or  Carrots.  I would love to eat more fish, but it is expensive and I don't like to smell up the kitchen (LOL), so if I want fish we go out to eat it.

3. When you go out to eat what foods do you find yourself ordering most?

Depends on what kind of place it is. I like to order salads and seafood if available...salmon if affordable.

If it is a BBQ place, I will get BBQ pork, cole slaw, and either a baked sweet potato or fried okra. 

4. Can you recommend a restaurant in your area? Why do you like it?

Well, my favorite place for special occasions is Corky Bells, a seafood place on the St. John's River. I've shown lots of pictures from there over the years. But lately it seems they are always so crowded and the line is too long, so it kind of takes the joy out of going when you have to wait so long. It is about 15 miles from us.

Here's the last time we were there, with our blogging friend Terri from "Your Friend From Florida" fame, with her son Joey and our kids. We had a great time together, but we had to wait several HOURS to eat!  Still, it gave us time to visit, which was wonderful.  

It's a fun place on the river, and sometimes you even might see an alligator!  

Oh, and I mustn't forget, a few years ago we met another very special blogging friend there for supper...Debbi from Debbi's Front Porch, 

and we also brought our special little friends Lily Grace and her Tracie and AmyBelle, who are "cousins", since Debbi is Lily Grace's special "Auntie Debbi" who actually sent Lily Grace to me in the first place!

I don't think Corky Bell's was ever quite the same after our visit there! LOL. 

Other than that, we might occasionally go to Chili's for their lunch special deal, or the other day we picked up a great hamburger at a small local hamburger place, "Hog Wild Burgers and Shakes".  They are a subsidiary of the the former favorite Hog Wild Country Cafe' that burned and had to close, which made us very sad. They now own our local "True Grits" country diner, but it's just not the same. The other diner we have is Nanna's Country Cafe', but it is very small and doesn't have much atmosphere, but the food is okay and affordable. We may go there tomorrow morning for breakfast because it's time for me to have lab work done, and we usually go out for breakfast after that.

I guess that's all on this topic for now!

Thanks for joining in!

Matthew 6:25-27, 31-34

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 

26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 

27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

This beautiful Snowy Egret landed in the pine tree right in front of our back porch this morning, on Still Waters Pond

They very seldom land in the trees close enough for me to get a good look at them, so this was a real treat!

He was God's special messenger of "Do Not Worry" for us today!

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 

32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. 

For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, 

and all these things shall be added to you. 

34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Speaking of not worrying, we were able to get another appointment for hubby this week on Thursday, back with our PCP, and THIS time we are supposed to see the one we had wanted to see last week. We hope to pursue some further referrals/recommendations this time, and hopefully we will start getting some answers.  Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement on my last post. You are all the best folks ever!!  Blessings to all of you!!